Republicans on the House Oversight Committee spent much of Wednesday hammering Michael Cohen as a convicted liar whose word should never be trusted. President Trump added that Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer, was only lying "95 percent" of the time, the exception being Cohen's attested lack of direct knowledge of Trump-Russia collusion (though Cohen said he had his "suspicions").
In an interview with Trump broadcast Thursday night, Fox News host Sean Hannity told Trump that Cohen and his lawyer had lied about Hannity being one of Cohen's three legal clients. But Hannity suggested he believed Cohen's earlier assertion about Trump's involvement in a $130,000 hush-money payment to porn actress Stormy Daniels. "I can tell you personally, he said to me at least a dozen times that he made the decision on the payments and he didn't tell you," Hannity told Trump, who agreed.
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